SEVERAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE GYPSIES (ROMA) FROM THEIR FIRST PRESENCES IN THE ROMANIA AND UNTIL THE SECOND WORLD WAR

摘要

This study presents the complex image of one of the most interesting andpersonalized ethnicity from Romania: the Gypsies. The paper makes a quick noteon the origins and the beginning moments of this ethnic group on Romanian land.This article seeks social characteristics, economic and demographic characteristicsof Gypsies during the Middle Ages and early modern times, focusing onemancipation period and the consequences of great importance it has triggered.The specificity of this ethnic group, led to significant differentiation from mostethnic in these periods that is registered also in the interwar period. This papercontributes to shaping the image of an ethnic group that strongly individualizedthrough traditional features that had done in a small degree to integrate inRomanian society of those times and continues to experience difficulties inadjusting to new realities and requirements arising from EU membership.